Hi, I want to thank you! You've answered so quickly and your answer are perfect! I definitly want to install CRUX, for the philosophy (I like the fact that the CRUX team does't want CRUX to become the most popular distribution, but to be enjoyed by the advanced users), also for the source code... I like to compile -> I feel like if I had more control. So, thanks again, and if I encouter any problem, I'll post Greetings Justin Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:55:59 +0200 Subject: Re: Difference between CRUX && Arch From: cdtn235@gmail.com To: justin.domingue@hotmail.com CC: crux@lists.crux.nu Hi, as far as I know about the history of Arch: Arch is "based" on LFS, though it is mostly a distribution on its own, that means, not really based on any other distro. But as already mentioned, Arch copied some things from CRUX (see for example the rc.conf-files on both systems, they look quite similar). A technical difference might be the packaging system. CRUX uses a ports system, which means, you download the source code and a description file and go compiling it after the instructions in this separate file (see the BSDs for further information), whereas Arch uses pacman, which primarily uses binary packages it gets from some repositories (but you can use Arch's ABS, that is Arch Build System, nevertheless; It's also a ports system of its own). A maybe not so technical but very important difference is the size difference of the user bases of both distros. You will get good support here, but you just can't draw on so many peoples knowledge as you could with Arch. But that's only, if you want some distro-specific details. Any more questions? Greetings Thomas 2009/5/18 James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Justin Domingue <justin.domingue@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Hi.

I'm new to the mailing list... I don't know if it's the right place to ask

this, but correct me if i'm at the wrong place! :P

So, i'm wondering what are the techniqual difference between CRUX &&

ArchLinux...

ArchLinux has stolen a lot from us ;) Hehe (pun intended). Arch is a binary-based distro. CRUX is source-based (but can also do binary). I'm not sure of the history of Arch, but if I were to guess I'd say it was based on CRUX. CRUX is one of the original distros IIRC and it's quite simple to install, use and maintain. It has a minimal architecture which I believe _we_ all absolutely love. Any other questions ? cheers James _______________________________________________ CRUX mailing list CRUX@lists.crux.nu http://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux _________________________________________________________________ Avec Windows Live, vous gardez le contact avec tous vos amis au même endroit. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9660830